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What is the noun for gatekeep?

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gate
  1. A doorlike structure outside a house.
  2. Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
  3. Movable barrier.
  4. (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
  5. (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
  6. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
  7. (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
  8. Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
  9. (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
  10. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
  11. (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
  12. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
  13. (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
  14. A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
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  16. Examples:
    1. “They stopped in front of a cattle gate in the fence surrounding a pasture about a hundred yards across.”
      “We passed through the gate into the building's interior garden.”
      “They are currently lying seventh in the crowd table with an average gate of 8,662.”
gate
  1. (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
  2. (obsolete) A journey.
  3. (Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street.
  4. (Britain, Scotland, dialect, archaic) Manner; gait.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “They stopped in front of a cattle gate in the fence surrounding a pasture about a hundred yards across.”
      “We passed through the gate into the building's interior garden.”
      “They are currently lying seventh in the crowd table with an average gate of 8,662.”
gatehouse
  1. A lodge besides the entrance to an estate; often the residence of a gatekeeper; also a dwelling formerly used as such a residence.
  2. (archaic) A fortified room over the entrance to a castle or over the gate in a city wall
  3. A shelter for a gatekeeper.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The ornamented gatehouse, garden, and royal tennis court further enhanced this favourite seat of the Scottish monarchs.”
      “This building was originally the gatehouse for Kirkstall Abbey, an important Cistercian monastery.”
      “The gunports in the south and east walls of the structure adjoining the later gatehouse suggest a late fifteen century date.”
gatekeeper
  1. A person or group who controls access to something or somebody
  2. A person who guards or monitors passage through a gate
  3. A common orange and brown butterfly with eyespots, Pyronia tithonus, of the Nymphalidae family.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Receiving a look from the watchman, the gatekeeper knew the postman felt the same.”
      “Hidden in the shadows of the gate tower, the gatekeeper pushed the huge gate open.”
      “He trotted up to a tiny red booth adjacent to the gate and spoke to the gatekeeper, a tiny woman with dyed green hair.”
gateleg
  1. A table leg, set into a frame in the form of a gate, that may be swung back to allow a leaf to hang down.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Despite uncertainty about the maker, this table represents one of the few well-documented Philadelphia gateleg tables.”
      “It would be a double gateleg table, I decided, partly as a tribute to an elegant, classic piece of furniture and partly as a way to have both a rectangular and a round table.”
      “Now that's a nice gateleg table in the corner there. Though of course you'd have to put new hinges on it if you wanted to use the flaps.”
gatepost
  1. a vertical post from which a gate is hung/attached.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “She leaned against the gatepost, feeling the cool metal against her back as she gazed over the vast fields.”
      “About five seconds too late, Jill slammed the gate shut, with my finger stuck between gate and gatepost.”
      “Outside the front door, a bulldozer is clearing up the mess caused when a heavily laden lorry crashed into the wall and gatepost.”
gatepier
  1. (architecture) Either of the pair of piers or pillars supporting a gate.
gatewoman
gateman
  1. A gatekeeper; a person who guards a gate.
  2. Examples:
    1. “To use it, the gateman had to lower the gates while he left the tower.”
      “It will be perfectly clear to the gateman that you came in in some improper way.”
      “The gateman was still there and our man put up a complaint, pointing to the clock.”
gatekeep
gating
  1. An arrangement of gates.
gatekeepers
  1. plural of gatekeeper
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It provides a way for good bands to reach big audiences directly, bypassing the gatekeepers and their straightjacketed radio playlists.”
      “Giving her appearance a final check-over she strode up to the gate, eyes narrowed when the gatekeepers slid out of their posts to meet her.”
      “The gatekeepers of information and judgment will instinctively and defensively protect their turf, rather than question their own legitimacy.”
gatewomen
  1. plural of gatewoman
gatehouses
gatepiers
  1. plural of gatepier
gateposts
  1. plural of gatepost
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  3. Examples:
    1. “She said she believed if they had not had strong brick gateposts the car could have ended up crashing into their home.”
      “The new building includes three windows, some stone and gateposts from the old church.”
      “All stockings must first be washed in an approved disinfectant and hung on boundary gateposts together with a copy of the official licence.”
gatemen
  1. plural of gateman
gatelegs
  1. plural of gateleg
gatings
  1. plural of gating
gates
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